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8 Nov 21
More than half of all public sector organisations do not have specific policies to combat fraud in the Canadian province of British Columbia, a survey has found.
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26 Oct 21
Cultural resistance and poor-quality financial data present hurdles to achieving real-time auditing of public spending.
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20 Oct 21
A Swiss bank which made "tainted loans" for government projects in Mozambique has been fined $475m by UK and US authorities over "serious financial crime", and will also write off $200m of debt owed...
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1 Oct 21
New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian has resigned after corruption investigators announced they were looking into whether she had acted dishonestly regarding public grant funding.
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14 Sep 21
Transparency rules, digitalisation and a code of conduct for officials sit at the heart of measures to strengthen government procurement processes, writes Ljupco Nikolovski, deputy prime minister of...
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2 Sep 21
The US government lost more than $90bn of its emergency pandemic aid to fraud and error, a watchdog’s report has found.
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31 Aug 21
Solutions to fixing public procurement already exist – the challenge lies in the political will of governments to implement them.
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19 Aug 21
CIPFA worked with Bangladesh’s ministry of finance to bring the country’s public financial framework into the 21st century.
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13 Aug 21
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has told politicians that corruption which has plagued the African National Congress poses an “existential threat”, after his predecessor Jacob Zuma was jailed...
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13 Jul 21
The need to act fast to save lives is a poor excuse for Covid-19 procurement scandals – better crisis preparation is needed.
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5 Jul 21
Brazil’s supreme court has authorised an investigation into president Jair Bolsonaro’s response to a Covid-19 vaccine procurement deal amid allegations he ignored irregularities in the process.
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30 Jun 21
Former South African president Jacob Zuma has been sentenced to 15 months in prison after failing to attend a corruption inquiry, fearing “significant damage to the rule of law” if he was not...
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29 Jun 21
A university in Kenya has faced criticism after dismissing a senior accountant involved in an ongoing legal case concerning a former vice-chancellor.
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14 Jun 21
Counterfeit or poor quality medical equipment proliferated in Europe amid the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the European Union’s anti-fraud bureau.
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2 Jun 21
A newly created public prosecutor has begun work to reduce the €460m of fraud that affects European Union spending in a year.
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10 May 21
Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund is suing nine institutions and 25 people in an attempt to recover money it said was lost during a corruption scandal that toppled a previous government.
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7 May 21
Qatar’s finance minister has been arrested amid allegations of misuse of public funds.
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21 Apr 21
Politicians in Nigeria’s major financial centre have set up an anti-corruption agency to investigate officials and contractors suspected of misusing public funds.
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2 Mar 21
The billions of dollars governments lose to tax abuse, corruption and money laundering could be used to fight the global challenges of our age, a UN panel has said.
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26 Feb 21
Counter fraud specialist Laura Hough explains the importance of taking a forward look at corruption risks an organisation faces, and of developing a culture that makes it easier to do the right thing.
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18 Feb 21
Governments need to be on their guard against fraudulent offers of Covid-19 vaccines, the EU’s fraud watchdog has warned amid its inquiry into the illicit trade of pandemic-related goods.
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8 Feb 21
Many public officials in South Africa abandoned procurement procedures amid the Covid-19 crisis, investigators have found while looking into corruption allegations.
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19 Jan 21
Allegations of widespread corruption in the British Virgin Islands have led to a formal inquiry being set up to investigate the problem.
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24 Nov 20
After Covid-19, a potential shortening of supply chains, shrinking contracts and more rigorous due diligence could spell a rise in purchasing costs.
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17 Nov 20
Germany’s inaction in fighting fraud in online sales has been blasted as “incomprehensible” by the country’s state audit office president – given the amount of money spent over the internet.